Marta Näripä

Marta Näripä

Fellow

Current Country

Sri Lanka 🇱🇰

Current City

Kandy

Intuition

Cultivating inner knowing

A question currently animating me about the inner life/spirit is:

What is my relationship with sacrifice?

October 31, 2025

A question currently animating me about the outer world/universe/multiverse is:

What is boundariless human connection?

October 31, 2025

The practices I’m finding most helpful at the moment are:

Journaling

October 31, 2025

A moment I noticed my inner light kindled this month was:

When I finally arrived to Hanoi after having faced the headache of visa restrictions and applications and uncertainty after expecting to stay in Sri Lanka for three months. Somehow Vietnam made me instantly shine– I started feeling more myself and excited than I have for a while

October 31, 2025

A moment I noticed my inner light dwindled this month was:

There were multiple moments when I felt very stuck. Mentally in my own mind or physically in a place I would have preferred to leave sooner. And I think these moments made me overly introspective and stopped me from experiencing my surroundings, which made my inner light dwindle

October 31, 2025

Courage

Aligning action

Assumptions I'm examining right now are:

Impact

October 31, 2025

I originally assumed:

I used to think that having a constant group of people around me would make my inner growth slow down in comparison to interacting with a flow of new people all the time.

October 31, 2025

These assumptions are changing:

Now I sense that growth doesn't linearly speed up in relation to increased new energy around me. Sometimes growing with specific people can actually have unexpectedly fresher impact in who I am becoming.

October 31, 2025

A moment I stepped out of my comfort zone this month was:

Figuring out public transport in Vietnam. Wow, this was a headache even with Google Maps and wifi. I have never been more lost in learning a new system before in my life. It wasn't just getting on the right bus, but also getting of the bus at all. But finally I managed!

October 31, 2025

Compassion

Engaged Empathy

Something that is helping me build trusting relationships here is:

Definitely the Wednesday student led sessions- so nice to see people open up about topics that are important to them and thereby learn about them.

October 31, 2025

Digital Detox Retreat

Number of days I've gone without technology

Number of days I've gone without technology

16

Gratitude

Peers I'm grateful for:

Jasmine Muchilwa

Thank you so much, Jasmine, for offering your presentation about disability! Wow, your perspective really hit me on a deeper level and opened my eyes on how much is there that is looked through the fingers but actually requires collective attention and action.

October 31, 2025

Ruan Vitor Cordeiro da Silva

Thanks for our call, Ruan! It was so nice and comforting to share our excitement with each other before starting our travels and just getting to know your cool funky sides and being able to share enthusiasm about boardgames with someone!

October 3, 2025

Naomi Løvstad Wettstein

Naomi, thanks for trusting me to share a piece of yourself! I am so grateful for your presence in our conversations and the curiosity you are bringing to the Friday sessions. Also, thank you for creating this beautiful film, ohh how inspired I felt after watching it!

August 31, 2025

Asmaa Drawat

Thank you for our call! It made me so alive to have such an enriching discussion with you from philisophical pondering about the gloablisation and politics to getting to know your a bit about your daily life and aspirations <3

August 15, 2025

Peers who have expressed gratitude for me:

Tristan Herrero Picard

Every time I see a new post by you, I know something in my mind is going to shift. I appreciate a lot your calm and reflective presence, always ready to present a whole different perspective on life.

October 7, 2025

Ruan Vitor Cordeiro da Silva

Thank you so much for noticing during our coaching sessions that I was a little bit distant. I was having a tough week because of my work, and it made me so happy to see that someone noticed and worried about me (I already said this to you, but I love to appreciate people so!) <3

September 1, 2025

Naomi Løvstad Wettstein

I appreciate your presence and I'll look forward to our next call, and this growing connection. I feel this deeper sense of connection to you: perhaps because you remind me of one my friends, our similar background or just in the way you show up in our friday sessions. Tänan teid

August 29, 2025

Magical Moments

Light-kindling moments

Light-kindling moments

Experiencing third class train rides

Galle to Colombo

Sep 29, 2025

I have fallen in love with taking trains in Sri Lanka. Interestingly, I find myself developing silent connections with strangers on the train after many long hours of coexisting. From a man who was drying the train floor after it had rained so I will be more comfortable sitting on it while watching a beautiful sunset and my hair flowing with the wind to the two little girls who couldn't stop smiling after I offered them my backpack to sit on– thank you for making my day!